HENSOM

Gravener . b. Nottingham 1785; engaged in hosiery trade and in point and bobbin net manufacture; had a practical knowledge of all kinds of looms; wandered about the coasts of England, Scotland and France discovering and exposing the tricks of the smugglers; imprisoned in Cold bath-fields prison for his connection with Luddite riots; gave evidence before parliamentary committee; author of List of 100 inventions and alterations in the stocking and lace machines 1828; Civil, political and mechanical history of the frame-work knitting and lace trades 1831 which was never finished. d. Broad st. Nottingham 15 Nov. 1852. Felkin’s History of hosiery (1867) pp. xv-xvii ; Wylie’s Nottingham (1853) 234–5. HENTY, Edward ( 6 son of Thomas Henty, landowner and banker, West Tarring, Su ex, who went to Tasmania 1831 ). b. West Tarring, Su ex 10 March 1809; emigrated to Tasmania 1831; one of the three founders of the colony of Victoria, Australia; the first settler in Portland Bay, Victoria 19 Nov. 1834 where he had a whaling station; imported pure merino sheep 1835; ploughed the first land ever turned up in Victoria 1835; went inland and took up large sheep runs; member for Norman by in legislative a embly 1856–61; held Muntham station, Victoria. d. Offing ton, St. Kilda road, Melbourne 14 Aug. 1878. Times 28 Sep. 1878 p. 10; Men of the Time . Victorian Series (1878) 86–8; R. Henty’s Australian a (1886) 26 etc.